Cagle to serve 300 days for molesting challenged person
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The defendant, Michael W. Cagle, entered guilty pleas before Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley to two counts of sexual battery. He was directed to serve 300 days of a four-year sentence, with the balance of his term to be spent on supervised probation after his jail time is completed. He must also perform 40 hours public service work and list himself with the state sexual offender registry.
Cagle was charged last summer with sexual battery for inappropriately touching the male victim who is not able to walk and has limited ability to move on his own.
Cagle talked his way into the victim?s home by claiming his car had run out of gas. Once inside, Cagle allegedly engaged the victim in conversation, asking him for gas money and then claiming he was taking up money for disabled children and asking the victim for a $20 donation. He was not taking up money for disabled children, but instead was trying to con the physically challenged victim out of money.
It was during the conversation, Cagle claimed to be a physical therapist and offered to assist the victim into bed. Cagle then allegedly claimed he could perform therapy on the physically challenged man, at which time the victim said Cagle began touching him inappropriately. Cagle is a construction worker, not a therapist.
The victim would later relate what happened when his actual caregiver arrived. His caregiver then contacted lawmen, who, given a description of the vehicle provided by the victim, stopped Cagle.
Now that he is a convicted sexual predator, Cagle will have his picture and whereabouts listed on the state sexual offender Web site. Cagle has been ordered to have no contact with his victim.